UGC Report on Inter University Center on Rural - Ministry of Rural ...

6.1 NATIONAL HUB FOR THE IUC
- (Partnership in Research and Technology Development)
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TWO-TIER STRUCTURE
The inter-university coordination for rural development will be housed initially in a
development oriented university which <strong>UGC</strong> may select if it has most of the dimensions of
rural development and has connectivity to most of the national institutional categories like
ICAR, CSIR, ICSSR, Agro-economic research centres, besides prime institutes like ISRO,
NIRD, NDDV, IRMA etc.
The objective enumerated in section-2 will be the concern of this national hub. This
hub will be able to network the Regional Platforms for Knowledge Connectivity (RPKC) as
detailed below.
6.2 REGIONAL HUBS
As indicated earlier the aim will be to get to the 18 agro-climatic regions. Further
with the view to achieve knowledge based Regional Platforms for Knowledge Connectivity
will be created by identifying a inter-disciplinary mix of knowledge centers spanning various
dimensions of rural development. For example,
Agricultural institutes
CSIR laboratories
KVIC related institutes
Institutes related to natural resource management
Centres of entrepreneurship development
Institutes of regional planning
In certain regions one easily finds all such institutes where premier institutes are not
available next best approximation will be attempted in the regions where the depth of such
institutes has regional development institute will be established to help development leap
frogging in such backward regions.
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